I have a project, YamJam, that I have been using since 2009. The main idea is a framework that allows you to factor out sensitive data from your code before you upload to a 3rd party repos. I’ve got internal and external projects that have been using it for quite a while and it makes these refactorings a breeze. I have other open source projects that get a lot more attention but yet have a niche audience, so I am experimenting to see if it is the lack of documentation and being a conforming pypi dist that is limiting it’s appeal. Yamjam should be popular, because it can scratch an itch caused by Djano. That itch being, “What do you do with settings.py?” It’s got lots of sensitive data that shouldn’t be checked into to a repos but it also has a lot of code that should. It also makes deployment between dev, staging and production easy to do with a checkout.

To that end, I’ve been creating a proper and complete test suite (was doctests) using py.test and tox, Continuous Integration with drone.io, documentation via readthedocs.org and sphinx, spiffing up the setup and dist with the latest distutils and uploading with twine instead of setup.py upload.

Through this whole process, I’ve had a lot of new experiences that I am going to be blogging about in the upcoming weeks. Things I like, really like, things that are annoying and some things that are counter to my way of thinking. During this process I’ve also been filing bug reports when I’ve encountered them and sending out feedback for improvements along the way.

After moving my code from subversion on google code to mercurial on bitbucket (hg convert), I started looking for a CI service to use. Off the bat, I looked at Travis-ci, but unfortunately, travis is a github snob. If you are not hosting your code on github or mirroring off of github then travis-ci is not an option. Some google searching showed that pylint (a tool I like very much and use) moved from internal tools to bitbucket and http://drone.io/ . So off to drone I go.

http://drone.io/ took about 10 minutes from signing in via my bitbucket account to running my first integration. When I learned that drone.io allows you to view the settings for other open source projects build environments, I had python 27, 32, 33 and 34 tests running via tox less than an hour later. What higher praise could I give a service than saying from 0 to testing in 10 minutes? I really, really like drone.io and recommend that you check them out. Unlike Travis-ci, drone.io supports bitbucket, github and google code. Options, I like. It is the same reason I prefer bitbucket to github. Bitbucket supports mercurial and git. I use both dvcs systems. I prefer mercurial. I like that bitbucket allows me to make the choice. Choice makes me happy. Check out my setup on drone.